At the start of Ninja Gaiden (1989), two men stood in a field under a full moon. This being a game on the Nintendo Entertainment System, with its bou...
Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, a new action-RPG from developer Leenzee Games, is not to be confused with Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty. And neither of these is ...
Ready or Not is an awful title for a very good video game. It sounds like indie horror, one of those YouTube-friendly shockers where faces turn ghouli...
The three-dimensional platformer isn't what it was. It used to sell consoles. It used to forge characters and brand them to the memory. Now it can s...
At the start of I Am Your Beast, a rabid first-person shooter, we follow a bird in flight. We, in this case, embody Antoine Harding, who, despite sou...
Nightdive Studios has dipped back into the past again, surfacing this time with System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster. The title is slightly out,...
Tron: Catalyst is the latest game to spring from the movie Tron, which came out in 1982. If you count, among that film's charms, the sight of Jeff ...
V Rising stands out as a rich vampire role-playing game, and proves that the ARPG genre's busywork is much easier to swallow when wrapped in a good fantasy.
Elden Ring Nightreign is being billed as a standalone follow-up to Elden Ring, which is like saying that Wallace stands alone from Gromit. Both are th...
The new game from developer MercurySteam is Blades of Fire, which is not a good name. Blades of Fire. It sounds like a documentary about patriotic i...
The Precinct is set in Averno City, an amalgam of New York and Detroit. The time is the early 1980s. Trash is in the streets. The walls are raw with g...
I like mechs. Do you like mechs? What's not to like about mechs? You strap yourself into a vast shell of mean-looking metal and clomp about like Rip...
Atomfall is a quirky new slice of apocalypse – or, at least, of highly localised doom. The setting is Cumbria, in the wake of the Windscale nuclear ...
Our first order of business, with regard to Tomb Raider IV–VI Remastered, is to note that no such games existed. Those contained in this collection...
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector follows on from Citizen Sleeper, but it keeps its distance. It's set in the same world, where the chilly vacuums...
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 is an independent game, in the truest meaning of the term, and, beyond the hook of its mysteries, you may be drawn to it by virtue of being tired of other things.
A sweet tactical twist on a beloved series, Leikir has paid homage in the best possible way: by doing something new.
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 1 & 2 Remastered is a great way to play two underserved cult classics, with reams of extra material for the devoted.
If you worry that single-player capers with plush budgets and a modest claim on your hours are destined for a museum, hopefully this will delay the entropy.
Animal Well is one of those works that seem to have been scooped out of a single skull: a chilly clump of sweet dreams and obsessions, pleasures and manias.